Lizzie Armitstead is streets ahead of any other British rider in women’s cycling, according to Laura Trott.
Armitstead took a commanding road race victory at the British nationals in Lincoln on Sunday, launching an attack on the penultimate cobbled climb of Michaelgate, with Trott claiming the bronze medal. It was a direct reverse of last year, when Trott claimed the jersey ahead of Armitstead in third.
Trott had held Armitstead’s wheel over the initial climbs of Michaelgate but she and the rest of the peloton had no response when Armitstead made the decisive move.
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"She’s just completely in a league of her own," Trott told reporters after crossing the line. "She would be though in a way, because she’s the world's best at the minute, none of us are nowhere close to that. We’d be lucky to get a top-20 in a UCI race. She really is just a class above the rest of us.
“It started off all right and I didn’t feel too bad, but it was just two laps too long for me. Coming up the hill for the second to last time Lizzie went and that was it, there was just no following, she was just in a league of her own."
Given the nature of the course, Trott was never going to be the favourite to defend her title. The repeated climbs of the cobbled Michaelgate, 300 metres long with a 1/6 gradient, were far better suited to Armtistead than someone who is predominantly a track racer.
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